How does diamond refute the charge that australia

Why did almonds prove domesticable while acorns were not? What significance does this have? Almonds were domesticable because they had only one thing of dna that made them unedible, while that bad dna has more in the acorn. For example So that makes less of a resource for food. How does Diamond explain the fact that domesticable American apples and grapes were not domesticated until the arrival of Europeans? What were the advantages enjoyed by the Fertile Crescent that allowed it to be the earliest site of development for most of the building blocks of civilization?

How does Diamond explain the fact that it was nevertheless Europe and not Southwest Asia that ended up spreading its culture to the rest of the world? Well climate was a major factor. It allowed the food to grow well. The crescent contains flora which helped with pollination. How does Diamond refute the argument that the failure to domesticate certain animals arose from cultural differences?

What does the modern failure to domesticate, for example, the eland suggest about the reasons why some peoples independently developed domestic animals and others did not?

Diamond disproved that argument because he said that domestication of animals, when given the opportunity, it has been going on for years. Well house animals are a good example because they were just easy to tame, while some are not. What is the importance of the "Anna Karenina principle"? How does comparing mutations help one trace the spread of agriculture?

It helps to trace because you can compare where exactly a food was genetically altered, how it flourished, the conditions it endured, and what the difference actually was. It shows how different societies managed to grow the same crop, but with different techniques and style. How does civilization lead to epidemics? Civilization leads to epidemics through evolution and adaptation. As people get more inventive and stronger, so does the world around them. How does Diamond's theory that invention is, in fact, the mother of necessity bear upon the traditional "heroic" model of invention?

The United States needed to create an atomic bomb. This bomb was a necessity to end the war. It was a heroic invention because it was used in combat. According to Diamond, how does religion evolve along with increasingly complex societies?

Well I know that from previous knowledge that government has a huge part in religion. It happened, too, in China, and later in Mesoamerica. But the New World was not nearly as abundant in the good stuff. And like Africa, it is oriented North and South, resulting in different climates, which make the diffusion of agriculture and animals problematic. While you have heard many of these arguments before, Diamond has brought them together convincingly.

The prose is not brilliant and there are apologies and redundancies that we could do without. But a fair answer to Yali's question this surely is, and gratifyingly, it makes clear that race has nothing to do with who does or does not develop cargo.

Kirkus Reviews top of page. What is the importance of the order of the chapters? What conclusions does Diamond draw from their history? How does Diamond challenge our assumptions about the transition from hunter-gathering to farming? How does this account for the great disparities in societies, as well as for the possibilities of parallel evolution? How does Diamond explain the fact that domesticable American apples and grapes were not domesticated until the arrival of Europeans?

What were the advantages enjoyed by the Fertile Crescent that allowed it to be the earliest site of development for most of the building blocks of civilization? How does Diamond explain the fact that it was nevertheless Europe and not Southwest Asia that ended up spreading its culture to the rest of the world? How does Diamond refute the argument that the failure to domesticate certain animals arose from cultural differences? What does the modern failure to domesticate, for example, the eland suggest about the reasons why some peoples independently developed domestic animals and others did not?

How is linguistic evidence used to draw conclusions about the spread of peoples in China, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and Africa? What is the significance of the differing outcomes of Austronesian expansion in Indonesia and New Guinea?

What consequences do these conditions have for world history? How does Diamond refute the charge that Australia is proof that differences in the fates of human societies are a matter of people and not environment? Which aspects are explained? Diamond offers two tribes, the Chimbu and the Daribi, as examples of differing receptivities to innovation. Do you think he would accept larger, continent-wide differences in receptivity? Why or why not?

How, throughout the book, does Diamond address the issues he discusses in the last few pages of his final chapter, when he proposes a science of human history? It is the summer of in Tamarack County, Minnesota. Just outside the small town of Aurora, The fine thing about short stories in general is their way of following characters through Book Club Discussion. A blisteringly powerful tale of standing up to oppression and terror The Independent UK.

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